MAURY, Dabney Herndon

Confederate

Born: May 21 1822, Fredericksburg VA

Died: January 11 1900, Peoria IL

Pre-War Profession: Graduated West Point 1846, Mexican War, teacher at West Point, frontier duty, superintendent of cavalry school at Carlisle PA, dismissed from US Army June 1861 (a resignation not having been accepted).

War Service: 1861 Capt. of CSA cavalry, 1862 Col. and chief of staff to Van Dorn, Elkhorn Tavern, March 1862 Brig. Gen., Iuka, Corinth, November 1862 Maj. Gen., commanded the Dist. of the Gulf, defended Mobile Bay.

Post War: Teacher, founder of Southern Historical Society, US minister to Colombia, wrote memoirs.